Valorant 13.09 Patch Notes - Hush Agent & Warden Buffs

Valorant patch 13.09 was published on October 27, 2026, and its big news is the arrival of new Agent Hush. The notes also add updated ability tooltips, official Haste and Snapshot buff terms, Clove and Warden adjustments, and a long list of bug fixes for Valorant.

We will go over every change in Valorant 13.09, from Hush's kit and the new buff terms to the Warden recoil tweaks and smaller fixes.

Valorant 13.09 Highlights

• New Agent Hush: she picks up weapons and the Spike from range, and throws Displacement and Flashbulb before suspending enemies.
• Tooltips: ability descriptions are rewritten, passives are described in more places and the tooltip is redesigned.
• Buff terms: Haste and Snapshot are now official terms.
• Clove: Pick-me-up movement speed drops from 15% ⇒ 10%.
• Warden: smoother pitch recoil and lower spread on follow up shots.
• Competitive: Performance Score info pages, a bigger Act Best Match impact on Map Rating and a harder First Blood Accolade.

Agent Hush

Hush is the newest Agent, and Riot describes her as hailing from Guangdong province. She uses telekinesis to redirect her combat utility in midair, displacing the enemy team before suspending them for the killing blow.

Telekinesis (Passive)

Hush can pick up weapons, the Spike (when on attacker side), and interact with switches from an increased range.

Displacement

Equip Displacement, then fire to throw it. Alt fire prepares it instead, and reactivating it directs it towards your crosshair. It explodes on any surface or after a delay, pulling all players towards the center and concussing them if they collide with any surface or another player. It resets every two kills.

Flashbulb

Equip Flashbulb, then fire to throw it. Alt fire prepares it instead, and reactivating it directs it towards your crosshair. It explodes on any surface or after a delay, flashing all players looking at it.

Flow

Flow instantly creates an anchor. If Hush is in the air, she briefly levitates in place, and after a delay she propels towards the anchor.

Suspension

Suspension is instantly prepared. Fire to send it forward while steering with your crosshair, then reactivate it or press fire again to detonate it, levitating all players.

Ability Descriptions and Buff Terms

All ability descriptions have been updated for clarity and consistency. Passive descriptions now appear for more Agents in Agent Select, the Agent Hub and Ability Tooltips, including passives that were not previously described in game, like Neon's Battery.

The Ability Description Tooltip has also been redesigned to read better at a glance, with baseline details such as Agent, role and keybinds. Tooltips now appear during relevant moments, such as when you test a new Agent in the Range.

Haste and Snapshot

Haste and Snapshot are now official buff terms.

• Haste: the increased movement speed buff you receive, as opposed to a Combat Stim buff, which increases your fire rate, equip speed, reload speed and recovery speed.
• Snapshot: the still image silhouette reveal debuff, such as Cypher's Neural Theft and Spycam.

The change should make it clearer when you receive or refresh a Combat Stim buff, a Haste buff, or both. Because Haste now adds a timer bar to the UI, the previous timer bar was removed to reduce clutter.

• Brimstone: Stim Beacon shows an applied Haste buff to affected players.
• Clove: Pick-me-up shows an applied Haste buff.
• Miks: Harmonize shows an applied Haste buff to affected players.
• Neon: Neon sees an applied Haste buff while using High Gear or Overdrive.
• Waylay: Convergent Paths buff is renamed to the new Haste buff, since they have identical effects.

Agent Adjustments

Clove

While auditing buffs, the team found inconsistencies with Clove and is standardizing them to roster values and rules. Clove had a higher movement speed bonus than similar abilities and different kill rewards after casting Not Dead Yet.

• Pick-me-up bonus movement speed: 15% ⇒ 10%
• Not Dead Yet: killing Clove after they cast it now grants an ultimate point and signature refresh point to the player who killed them.

Jett

Jett's passive was removed from the Buy Menu to be consistent with other non-purchaseable passives.

Competitive and Store Updates

Hush is the first new Agent since Performance Score launched, so your scores on her may be a bit bumpy in the first few days while the team tunes what good utility use looks like.

• Performance Score: the end-of-game pages give more info, including hover text for trades on the scoreboard (PC only) and a new "learn more" screen.
• Map Rating: your Act Best Match now has a bigger impact on your Map Rating each Act, to highlight consistency and peaks.
• Accolades: the First Blood Accolade was showing up too often, so its threshold is harder to earn. Your historic count of Accolades is not affected.
• Store: in Korea only, players can now buy Radianite Points in game.

Warden Buffs

The team has been watching player feedback on the Warden and wants to improve its base versatility and handling to better fit its current 2900 price. The buffs aim to make the gun feel more controllable and comfortable to learn.

• Pitch recoil is smoothed out for the first few bullets.
• Spread on follow up shots is reduced.
• 2nd bullet error: .25 ⇒ .2
• 3rd bullet error: .6 ⇒ .5

Valorant 13.09 Bug Fixes

Agents

• Clove: fixed Ruse's ability map being visible to enemies positioned below Clove, and the Pick-Me-Up timer staying on the HUD after use.
• Cypher: fixed Cyber Cage changing orientation when placed on angled surfaces.
• Deadlock: fixed the Annihilation capture voice line not playing for the captured enemy.
• Gekko: fixed Mosh Pit damaging destructible objects outside its intended area of effect.
• Omen: fixed Shrouded Step arrival visual effects ending prematurely.
• Raze: fixed Boom Bot continuing to track an enemy's location after they teleported.
• Sova: fixed Hunter's Fury affecting players positioned behind him.
• Tejo: fixed Special Delivery persisting into the next round, and fixed Guided Salvo targeting an unintended location or failing to cast after a selected target moved out of range.
• Yoru: fixed Gatecrash sound effects repeatedly playing when using the ability while suppressed.

Multiple Agents

• Vulnerable visual effects were incorrectly positioned on Gekko's Wingman, Killjoy's Turret and Raze's Boom Bot.
• Tejo's Guided Salvo and Brimstone's Orbital Strike placement indicators could initially appear offset from the player's position.
• Chamber's and Omen's locations could briefly be revealed to enemies on the minimap after teleporting.
• Certain abilities belonging to Cypher, Vyse, Viper and Killjoy could be visible to opponents through barriers during the Buy Phase.
• Veto and Vyse's in-game UI changed from PICK UP to RECALL, to match other similar retrieval methods.

General, Spectator and Personalisation

• Placing an ability using the ability map could consume multiple charges or place abilities at unintended locations.
• Ability map cursors and placement indicators could disappear while equipping or using certain abilities.
• Enemies outside the affected vision range could appear on the minimap while a player was Nearsighted.
• Ability maps could remain visible instead of being obscured by consecutive flashes.
• Ability descriptions could be missing or show incorrect information while controlling certain Agent abilities.
• Neon's Fast Lane visual effects could be invisible to spectators observing the Spike.
• The yellow notification icon on new Player Cards is now in the correct position.

Platform Specific

• PC only: fixed the mouse cursor briefly disappearing when moved outside the boundaries of certain ability maps.
• Console only: fixed Miks' M-Pulse and Bassquake abilities not giving controller vibration feedback when equipped or cast.

And that covers all of the changes in Valorant 13.09. You can read the official patch notes on the playvalorant.com website, and look back at the previous update in our Valorant 13.08 patch notes or the earlier Valorant 10.01 agent changes and bug fixes.